Richard - Libros y biografía

The tenth Nikki Heat novel, set in the universe of the Castle TV series. New York police captain Nikki Heat is accustomed to dealing with murders, even those with no leads and no motives. However, when...

BAFTA Nominated entertainer and Gold Award recipient from The British Academy of Composers, Richard Digance is also a respected poet with his works published in 14 different countries as English teaching...

No matter how experienced you are, Little Book of Fly Fishing for Salmon will remind you that there is always more to learn. In the rush to put a fly into the water, it's easy to forget that one of the...

Richard Hammersley is a health psychologist who had a long university career and still practices from his family home in the Scottish Borders. He has been writing poetry since he was 13, in parallel with...

'Attempts to get to the heart of the traveller's experience. The result is the emergence of an … increasingly involving story.' – New Welsh Review When Richard Collins was diagnosed with a progressive...

Kingsley Amis was a mimic, jester, father, husband, atheist, pseudo-socialist and clubland Tory boozer with a limitless taste for adultery; Philip Larkin a glum misanthrope who lived in self-imposed solitude....

The ability to perform heat treatments in the home workshop can be a very useful asset, enabling you to make, repair and maintain tools, to anneal and normalize work-hardened metals, and even to create...

In Mohawk, New York, Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he...

Highly acclaimed author and naturalist Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) made his living writing about the countryside in which he lived.  He made his name through his newspaper columns about the countryside...

Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing...

The great American master Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a contemporary classic. Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying...

Whether you are an out-and-out beginner or have a little experience behind you, Little Book of Fly Fishing for Trout will prove an invaluable guide. Written by two highly-experienced fishermen, angling...

This book covers the practical syllabus a student skipper needs if they are to pass advanced sailing exams. It is also designed to be kept on board as a coaching guide covering common situations that...

Written by Richard Evans, Independent Thinking on Emotional Literacy: A passport to increased confidence, engagement and learning shares an approach that will help educators boost their pupils' emotional...

Any fool can put together a presentation; this book exists because so many do. There's something sucking the life out of audiences everywhere, transforming them from the very people who can change your...

This book is a useful guide for adult learners who are thinking of taking up a musical instrument for the first time or who want to pick up from where they left off as children. The author helps the reader...

'The only thing in life that you have 100 per cent control over are the thoughts in your head. When your thoughts are centred around the very essence of your purpose, and the meaning of your life, you...

For a whole generation of car enthusiasts, Triumph was the manufacturer to turn to when buying a sports car. Whether it was a Spitfire or GT6 - or the more costly TR models - this Coventry manufacturer...

The VW Beetle is one of the best-loved of all classic cars, with many thousands preserved across the world, many in regular use. Over the years countless changes were introduced, together making a mid...

Adrian Bell was farming and writing during a period when the English countryside underwent its most significant transformation for hundreds of years. His work, spanning sixty years from 1920 to 1980,...

Tracing the history of female crime and execution from 1726 to 1955, Women and the Noose presents the cases of over fifty women who met their end on the hangman's gallows. From the criminal act to the...

The sixties were possibly the greatest decade of last century – an exciting time for music and youth. No other youth culture has personified this more than the Mods, who emerged in the early years of...

RTE Guide's Book of the Year, 2018 Richard Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In 'Horseman,'...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him...

DERBYSHIRE has long been a popular tourist destination. For centuries the crowds have flocked to fashionable towns like Buxton, and a large swathe of the county was incorporated into the UK's first National...

Cerris dropped out of school believing life had nothing to offer her. She wanted to die but met a man who persuaded her to marry him. She had his children but realized her mistake when he started beating...

Written by Richard James, Chess for Schools: From simple strategy games to clubs and competitions is a great resource to help teachers encourage children to enjoy the benefits and challenges of the chess...

Brazing and soldering are essential metal joining techniques for a range of jobs in the workshop. This new practical guide will introduce you to the methods and show you how to enhance these skills safely...

Drawing on five decades of private notebooks, Richard Murphy has created a unique memoir of his life and times. Murphy writes about delicate personal issues as he chronicles the making and unmasking of...

A remarkable and eccentric insight into the south east of England in the pre-war period.Richard Wyndham's 'last look round' was a tour taken immediately before the Second World War in 1939 and was originally...